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In Defense of the Gundam Girls

An essay by Willow


Relena Peacecraft, Hilde Schbeiker, Dorothy Catalonia, Lucrezia Noin, Lady Une and Sally Po, along with Catherine Bloom, are my favorite female characters of Gundam wing. Hajime Yadate and his friend Yoshiyuki Tomino characterized them with unique personalities and traits that any girl needing an idol could look up to. However a majority of these characters are accused of false assumptions and many other things due to their different opinions and pairings. To my dismay there so few Hilde, Relena, Dorothy and other female GW characters sites on the web and those who support these characters either:

1): Do not know how to make websites. (which is understandable)

2): They don't have enough time to make one or pay for it ... if you pay for it at all. (which is understandable.)

3): And if two suggestions aren't the case then there are a heckuva lot of Hilde, Relena, Dorothy, and other female GW haters out there. (which is not understandable)

I mean, there are so many people on the world wide web that say they hate Relena (for many outrageous stupid reasons), or they hate Hilde (because she's a “b*tch”, she tried to kill Duo, in their opinion she and Duo don't make a great couple), they hate Dorothy (because she tried to kill Quatre, her eyebrows are weird, she and Quatre aren't a couple etc.). They bash these three characters and possibly the others far too much for no plausible reason. Take:

Dorothy Catalonia, for instance:

She's the granddaughter of Duke Dermail of the Romefeller Foundation and loves/hates battles; she finds them beautiful and yet miserable at the same time. She admires Heero, Zechs, Treize, and Relena for what they do and their strengths.

She calls humans “fighting animals” because it is their nature to fight and she moves from OZ to the White Fang organization. Some might even call her a “snake in the grass.”

She duels with Quatre, and learns how to cry once again along with learning a valuable lesson from Quatre himself up to the point where she had encouraged the group of retired soldiers and others to stand up for the freedom they fought so hard to obtain.

Which I call a good thing. Everything Dorothy does is partially influenced by her time spent with her grandfather, the Duke. It’s not her fault she's the way she is. I liked her the second I saw her; I mean I love Gundam Wings' philosophies of war and humankind along with the characters. They’re interesting, and that's why I like Dorothy and Relena.

Hilde Schbeiker

Well I must say she wasn't my favorite character at first, due to the fact that I didn't like it when she attacked Duo while he was trying to get to the lunar base in the episode “Duo, the God of Death Once Again.” Anybody who's a fan of the gundam pilots wouldn't. Hilde was so intense about sacrificing her life and devoting it to OZ I wanted to choke her.

But when she came to her senses after having the little interrogation-conversation with the Shinigami, realizing that she was fighting on the wrong side, the German girl decided to help Duo into the lunar base and you never heard from her until Duo had escaped from the base and took refuge in the colony she resided in. (probably L2)

While on the colony she was persistent in helping Duo out in his battle against OZ and Romefeller in any way she could despite the fact Duo forbid her ever stepping onto another battlefield, fearful of her well-being and safety.

Hilde helped Duo and the other Gundam pilots out, until she got herself in trouble while escaping Libra in the episode “Signs of the Final Battle.” Hilde was never seen until the ending of “Endless Waltz.” When she remained to live with Duo I started to warm up to her personality. I liked her from that point on. There's nothing bad about Hilde.

Sally Po

She reminds me of a wise 30-year old woman, even though she’s only 19. She first started off as an OZ officer in the alliance before Operation Meteor was initiated and is a character anyone and probably everyone would find likable.

Sally seemed to be in the medical division of OZ in the episode “Five Gundams Confirmed” in the scene where they showed Heero strapped down to a special kind of table so they could examine his physical condition and question him once he regained consciousness. In the meantime she spoke to Relena about what she knew about Heero. But before she or anyone else could interrogate Heero, Duo had managed to sneak inside the facility and break Heero loose. Sally was in awe at Heero's abnormal ability to have survived the dive from such a high story building and then tumble down the hill onto the sandy beach.

Later on, in the episode “The Treize Assassination,” Sally seemed to have broken away from the alliance and OZ when she tried to stop the two incompetent soldiers from destroying the base they stood upon with several missiles just to wipe out the Gundam pilots.

Sally seemed to admire Heero still and even wanted to brag that she knew "Heero Yuy." Despite this, Sally Po wasn't seen again until the episode titled “Bewildered Warriors,” leading a group of rebels who destroy a number of OZ stationed in the area she was currently in and had the honor of meeting Wufei Chang, who deemed himself weak and unworthy of piloting his Gundam Shenlong/Nataku because of his defeat against Treize himself. Sally's patience is greatly shown in this episode as she tries to convince Wufei that he was not weak at all.

It wasn't until Wufei saw Sally as she stood in the line of fire that stirred his confidence to pilot the Nataku gundam and fight OZ once again. Afterward, Sally continued to work with many rebels, before persuading Wufei to joining the other Gundam pilots in space on Peacemillion. Her patience with everyone and everything, including Wufei, and helps others to see what they had lost touch of. Her personality is complex at best; everything about her is very likable and understandable.

Lucrezia Noin

Who could hate her? She thinks just as much as I do, she's got a cool hair style and she's just everything a friend or fan could ask for. (^_^V) Noin has been in OZ/Alliance since her younger years and could be considered a smart tactician and strategist in some ways. She is a soldier of high morals and respect with the nickname of Baronet.

Despite her reputation, along with reasons for fighting, Noin has a love interest: Zechs Merquise. Noin will defend anything he does or believes in even when he was trying to destroy the earth (though I know she had doubts about his decision). I felt so sorry for her because she was torn between fighting or supporting the man she loves. The Mediterranean woman even has pictures of the lightening count in her bedroom indicating she really has feelings for the Northern European soldier and respects him. She also tells Relena that she loved Zechs in the episode "The sorrowful battle." Noin is absolutely dependable in a fight no matter what the situation.

Lady Une

I disliked her and liked her at the same time at one point in the beginning of the series. She was a mean, merciless killer that worked for Mr. Treize, though I didn't mind when she killed General Septem.

To make things worse, Une targeted the Gundam pilots and ambushed them by setting a trap for them and targeted the colonies when she was losing the battle to them, causing Heero to destroy his Gundam with the self-destruct system. (I think Wing Gundam/Zero was destroyed a total of 3 or 4 times.)

And then OZ moved into outer space with her as the supervisor playing two parts: Merciless Colonel Une who did the dirty work and St. Une who promoted peace between the colonies. I wanted to pound her because she had captured Wufei, Heero, and Duo.

But when she started to finally understand what Mr. Treize was talking about when he spoke of the beauty of battles and mankind's will to fight and not back down (if I am correct) and the problem with the soulless Mobile dolls and freed the two remaining captive Gundam Pilots, I began to like her a lot. When Tuberov shot her I was angry. I liked Une a whole lot more in Endless Waltz since her split personalities had merged while she was in a coma. I've got no problem with Une.....not anymore anyways. *Laughs nervously*

Catherine Bloom

Not much is known about her, to completely honest. She is a performer in a traveling circus who despises war greatly because of the loss of her brother Triton Bloom in an aerial attack from above. She met Trowa when he applied to be a performer in their circus as an undercover alias while hiding his Gundam Heavyarms from OZ. Catherine was quite taken with the boy and wanted to know him better, so she talked to or flirted with the impassive Trowa who never really listened to her unless they were performing, as when she asked him to stand very still once when he was against a target that she was tossing knives at. Catherine was confused, sensing that Trowa wanted to die, and it only aroused her curiosity more when Trowa brushed off the cut she gave him as nothing.

Her exciting personality is hard not to like, and as the series progressed Catherine seemed to become Trowa's Surrogate sister and/or mother when he suffered from amnesia; she forbid him to fight in any battle and swatted away anyone from his past (namely Duo). Catherine did everything she could to protect Trowa in his fragile state of mind until she let him head off to battle with Quatre and Noin to fight with the White Fang. Despite this, Catherine's character is caring, strong-willed and loving. I can't see why anyone could hate her. I haven't found anyone yet thankfully.

And finally we get to the world-wide-web's GW character that is despised the most by some:

Relena Peacecraft (Darlain)

I never did hate her. In the beginning of the series I found the girl testing my tolerance toward her when she followed Heero around and preached peace at the most inappropriate time after the destruction of the Sanc Kingdom and when she was Queen Relena (the outfit made her look older than she was). But all and all Relena's not a bad character nor is she a bad person; she hung around Heero because she wanted to be strong like him after her father was assassinated and she admired him a lot as a person and as a fighter for peace. Most people don’t give Relena a chance to grow up during the series because they found her annoying in the beginning of the story and they just refuse to look at how her character grows and develops in the storyline. I find that to be really frustrating.

Sure, I mean she acted like any other spoiled rich girl, worried only about her birthday party and who she invited to it but one can only expect that from someone like Relena; she grew up in that kind of environment. I can't stand uptight rich people who think they're better than others.

But Relena wasn’t like that; she was first un-uptight rich person I knew. When those girls in Episode Zero started to look down at the boy that bore a striking resemblance to Heero with contempt Relena couldn't understand why they did. At the end she wanted to be friends with the boy but he was gone by the time she got down to the gate and performed her famous "My name is Relena Darlain...... what's yours?" quote.

And at the end of Endless Waltz I respected her so much more; she seemed to understand the gundam pilots along with others’ reasons for fighting in the last episode of Endless Waltz, “Return to Eternity,” when she realized she was running from the truth. I loved the scene when she rushed to catch Heero! Relena's a cool gal. There's nothing about her to hate. But that's my opinion of course.

Mission is complete. ß

Standard Disclaimer~
The author does not claim to own Gundam Wing nor any of its characters. Gundam Wing is owned by Sunrise, Sotsu Agency and TV Asahi.

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